arquebus

• Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• While at his post he was wounded by a shot from an arquebus, which passed through his cheek and shattered the right jaw-bone, at eleven in the morning on the 15th October. —  The Story of Rouen
• They were good shots with an arquebus, too, for a captain was reported to Valdory as having killed one of the enemy's sentinels "at a distance of three hundred paces at least;" and an equally successful shot is recorded at five hundred paces They were even vain-glorious; for Monsieur de Villars, says the same authority, desirous of a little diversion outside the walls, rode out with several gentlemen, and tilted at the ring beyond the ramparts under a hot fire, until he had had his fill of amusement. —  The Story of Rouen
• A large picture of the Virgin hung from a wall flanked on either side by an arquebus, and carrying a hunting-horn on one of its upper corners. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
• An arquebus was pointed at him, but, ere it was discharged, a hand from the crowd struck it away. —  The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham

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